For Sale or Trade and Help Wanted Notices
For Sale items include 15 30 Rumley engine 28 56 Rumley separator 12 ft Deering header and more. Canvases and farm equipment. 3000 Maxwell truck. Help wanted: competent woman for general housework. Also rental offer of 640 acres near Fryer creek Big Timber Montana. Tax deed application notice for Sweet Grass County Montana listing land in Section 24 Township 1 North Range 12 East M P M with $175.47 due dated Aug 6 1925.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rumley
Deering
McCormick
John Deere
Maxwell
C. M. Cremer
Melville
Mont
Sweet Grass County
Montana
W. W. McNee
Woolen mill saga recalls Big Timber venture of 1898
A fragmented retrospective details the Big Timber woolen mill built on the Boulder banks by William Whitfield, its brief 1901 operation, and eventual foreclosure by James E. Martin. Local funds backed the project but credit and competition doomed the enterprise, leaving a partially intact mill and ongoing attempts to revive it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boulder River
William Whitfield
Big Timber
Pioneer
Big Timber Express
Walter Aitken
Bozeman
Montana
James E. Martin
the van Cleves
Melville
Eighteen Years Ago in Big Timber News Reed by Crowded Local Briefs
A long list of notices from Big Timber recounts births and visits from Mer rill Helena and Melville, coal surveyors in the Crazy Mountains, a farewell gift for Agent Haynes, a Boulder Natural Bridge outing by Helena youths, a major restaurant fire on Meleod and First, a missing man near American Fork feared killed by a bear, wool baling totals at Boston market, creeks returning to normal and fine trout fishing, a derailment of N P train No 2 at Grey Cliff, Melville’s first annual sports with a parade and talent show, a broncho contest won by Bennett, a polo draw between Van Cleve and Scarlett, and a large grand ball attended by locals and Helena visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick Patton
Merrill
D. J. Walvoord
Helena
Dick Budd
S. A. Perrine
Hal
Butte
H. S. Evans
Crazy Mountains
W. J. Haynes
Mr. Haynes
Beulah Busha
Grace Pound
Pearl Long
Minta McCall
Ethel Browning
Miss Tibbits
Ernest Patterson
Hubert Nicholson
Carl Paulson
Dorman Kellogg
W. H. Patterson
James Bonner
Boulder Natural Bridge
Meleod
First Avenue
N. P
Josie Kline
Livingston
Iver Newland
American Fork
Lavold Ranch
A. E. Grosfield
Melville
John Rye
Belle Osburn
Bozeman
A. G. Yule
Phil Phillipson
East Boulder Valley
Ronald Merriclees
Lewistown
Boston
John Hoff
Minneapolis
Norway
George
Fred Browning
Deer Creek
Grey Cliff
Bennett
Twedot
Milligan
Archie Duffey
van Cleve
Scarlett
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. J. Lacklen Co
Oscar Nepstad
Ed Bartels
C. E. Crum
Melville, Mont
Yellowstone Addition
M. Christiansen
Wise River
Westinghouse Electric
J. J. Lacklen
Hickman Hardware
Cook
Boulder
Cali Cook
Tf A. Knowles
Jack Watt
Big Timber Building & Loan Association
J. A. Lowry
Treas
K. Rennebaum
Northwestern Rooms
Mabel Baker
Inquire Cook Hotel
H. P. Mooney
Ben Mijelde
W. H. Donald
A. W. Strickland
Corkins
Billings
Grand Hotel
Agnes Campbell
Fryer Creek
Carl Seyforth
Springdale
Coesen
Hickman Hardware Co
BIG Timber Garage
BUICK
U. S
Willard Batteries
Board of Equalization
Paul L. van Cleve
Fordson Tractor
Ford
J.J. Lacklen CO
Blue Bird Tea Room
Pioneer Office
Pioneer Files
Poultry and
Yellowstone Creamery
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!